On May 23, 2016, 31-year-old Black male Carl Rice Jr. was shot during a violent altercation at a residence on Bankers Lane near Washington Street in Indianapolis. Indianapolis Metropolitan Police officers found Rice with a gunshot wound to the chest; he was pronounced dead after emergency responders could not save him. Detectives tied the confrontation to an earlier domestic dispute involving Rice and a woman related to one of the suspects, concluding the shooting was not random but an escalation of that conflict.

Investigators report that Robert Curry, then 27, went to Rice’s home with his brother and two women, Alexis Cole and Mariah Echols, after allegedly overhearing the disturbance. The group confronted Rice; Curry and his brother reportedly beat him before Curry drew a weapon and fired one shot into Rice’s chest. All four fled across state lines to Ohio and were arrested by U.S. Marshals two days later and returned to Indiana. Robert Curry was charged in the killing, and the two women later pleaded guilty to related offenses and testified at Curry’s trial, which resulted in a conviction.

Does anyone have information about the events leading up to the confrontation on Bankers Lane or knew Carl Rice Jr.?